William walker



,V'ALKEL Trimming.

Patented Jan. 20,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEIOE.

WILLIAM WALKER, OE BROOKLYN, AssIcivoR To EMIL s. LEvI, OE NEW YORK, n. Y.

TRIMMING.

,SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 223,779, dated January 20, 1880. Application filed August 21, 1879.

To all whom t may concern Beit known that I, WILLIAM WALKER, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in 'Irimmings for Wearing Apparel; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to that class of trimmings which have been known as bandruflies;7 and it consists in a rufiie'composed of a luted, crimped, plaited, or gathered strip having its flutes, plaits, or gathers hatt-cned on both sides for a portion of its width, and having permanently affixed to saidiattened portion two separate strips or bands of plain fabric, one of which is placed on each side, and which are fastened to it by means of adhesive material, for the purpose of retaining its flattened condition and of forming a permanent The band thus produced may be on either edge of the ruffle or at any distance from either edge thereof.

lIn the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a transverse sect-ion of a piece of my improved trimming, having the band at one edge. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of a piece of the improved trimming with the band along the middle of its width. Fig. 3 is a plan or face view of arufe corresponding with Fig. 2, and illustra-ting how, by its division along the middle of its band7 it is made into two bandlruftles, like that shown in Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a diagram illustrative of the method of applying the bands to the uted, crimped, plaited, or gathered strip to make the band-ruffle.

A is the tinted, crimped, or gathered strip, and a c are two strips or bands of plain woven fabric applied on opposite sides thereof, and united therewith by means of adhesive material to form a double band.

To make this trimming the fluted, crimped, or plaited, or gathered strip A may be rst produced by any of the well-known means em ployed `for such work, the ilutes, plaits, or gathers being made all across it. rlo hatten that portion of the said strip A which is to receive rollers B B, being caused to adhere rmly to the attened portion of the band,

Water alone willbe sufficient Vfor moisten- A ing the bands or strips cia only when the said bands or strips-themselves or the strip A, or both, contain as dressing a sufficient quantity of adhesive material to produce the adhesion of the iiattened portion of the flutes, plaits, or gathers, and of the bands or strips a a.

rlhe rollers B B may be heated in order to more perfectly Hatten the banded portion `of the trimming and produce the more perfect adhesion of the parts thereof.

In order to more uniformly flatten the strip A where the bands a a are applied, I prefer to use in front of the rollers B B two iixed sup porting-guides, C C, converging toward a point near the opening between the said rollers, for supporting the bands or strips a a On their way to the strip A.

rIhe above brieiiy-described combination of supporting-guides C C and rollers B B constitutes part of the subject-matter of another application which I have made for Letters Patent, and are only described here with. a view to instruct others to make this improved trimming.

I prefer, in making the trimming'with the band on oneedge, (shown in Fig. 1,) rst to make the centrally-banded ruffle shown in Fig. 2, withthe strip A and the strips or bands a a, of double the width required, and then to cut this centrally-banded ruffle down the middle by any suitable means, as shown4 at o in Fig. 2. The trimming with band on the edge may, however, be made by taking a strip, A, of the proper width and applying and securing the strips or bands a c directly along the edge or margin by means of pressure and moisture the strip A ma)7 be first made of a width sufficient for more than two trimmings, and then have two or more bands, a a, applied on either or both sides at suitableintervals, in the manner described, and the Wide banded, ijuted, crimped, plaited, or gathered trimming thus produced be divided longitudinally of' each band to make three or more band-rufes.

I am aware that a band-rnfie has been formed by attening one edge of a rui-lied strip and afterward lapping a folded band of plain fabric over the flattened edge and securin g it thereto by adhesivematerial; but to make such a bandrufe the edge of the ruffle has always required to be attened by a separate process before applying the band.

One advantage of my ruffle having the band composed of two separate strips is, that it adl mits of the attening of the ruffle and the apat one operation.

What I claim as my invention is- A baud-rufecomposed of a uted, crimped, plaited, or gathered strip, A, attened on both permanently fixed to such flattened portion by adhesive material two separate strips of plain fabric, placed one on each side, for the purpose of confining the iattened portion of the flutes,

plication ofthe double band being performed zo sides for a portion of its Width7 and having z5 plaits, or gathers and of forming a permanent 3o 

